PAM Automation Scripts: Don’t Forget to Secure Admin Credentials
While IT executives understand the essential role privileged access management (PAM) solutions play in their organization’s overall security strategy, they’ve also continued to ask their PAM administrators to do more with less resources. To meet these additional asks, PAM admins have automated routine PAM tasks using scripts. PAM automation scripts can significantly lessen the burden on PAM admins and enable organizations to scale PAM usage across their entire enterprise. 1- Why Are PAM Automation Scripts So Powerful? A PAM admin’s daily responsibilities typically revolve around the lifecycles of privileged users in their organization and require high levels of privilege. For example, when a privileged user joins the organization, the PAM admin has to add them to the right safes and grant them the necessary permissions they need to perform their privileged tasks. If a user leaves an organization, all that access has to be revoked to ensure the organization remains secure. These process